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I'm a developer (financial industry), my company is going to do a trial WFH run to see if the VPN we use can handle the load. I'm a lowly contractor so I expect I'll get the axe if things begin to get real bad.
Everyone in my company already works from home so the only thing that has changed is in-person events/meetings are canceled until further notice.
Education in a low income area. Wondering how we are supposed to do elearning when most of our families can't afford for the kids to not be in school.
I work in a hospital laboratory. This has finally gotten my employer to decide to start performing respiratory testing in the biosafety cabinets, so that's good. We should have been doing it all along to be honest. Me and my coworkers think that the hysteria is kind of absurd.
I work in office rental/storage sales and it's mostly business as usual for us, we had a few emails basically saying if we have any flu like symptoms don't come to work but it was just general advice handed out by government agencies I guess. We're actually very busy at the moment though.
I'm not entirely convinced the company I work for are prepared for a situation where the few staff members who work here are not able to come to work, the main facility could potentially operate without staff for existing tenants but through experience that's not always the best idea, especially on an extended basis. It would be far more likely that we would need to restrict access during any closure and WFH for ourselves just isn't worthwhile - it's going to be a bit of a mess if worst case scenario actually happens.
I'm not entirely convinced the company I work for are prepared for a situation where the few staff members who work here are not able to come to work, the main facility could potentially operate without staff for existing tenants but through experience that's not always the best idea, especially on an extended basis. It would be far more likely that we would need to restrict access during any closure and WFH for ourselves just isn't worthwhile - it's going to be a bit of a mess if worst case scenario actually happens.
I'm a pipefitter and it's business as usual. The contractor told us to stay home if we are sick. The customer we are doing work for is a leader in continuous glucose system monitoring devises, and I'm guessing they are taking things a little more serious than the contractor. I wouldn't be surprised if something goes down in the next week or two that effects my job.
Active duty militar y- All commands are to track every servicemember in their command daily if they are affected by COVID-19 or suspected. If the person had been to China or any of the hotspot from December to January, they will need to be send to medical to be tested. If someone believes they are affected, they will go to the nearest Military Treatment Facility to get checked out by medical, and self quarantine for 14 days, or found fit for full duty status by medical before returning to work.
Not doing anything but telling us to wipe everything down, wear gloves, and washing our hands constantly. Of course I work in a grocery store so all we can do is try to mitigate things but you can't do much about someone forgetting to cover their cough and misting the air 20 feet in front of them.
I work in the mortgage industry (HELOCs specfically). Rumblings about work laptops coming are about so we can just work from home. Rates are free falling so there's a ton of applications coming in, but not enough people to do them. Some departments are having forced (paid obviously) overtime and Saturdays. Hell, my manager sent the team an email today saying we'll be open from 7-11 if someone wants to come in on SUNDAY.
Its a nightmare... I work in IT... A lot of what we can do is switch folks to OneDrive and they have their own continuity for their workflow, Administrators say no they have to use legit laptops to remote into their workstations... So we sneezed $12k on laptops for 3 weeks use and then they're given back to us for us to keep in storage.....
I work in phone sales.
All we're doing is disinfecting our display phones more, and our counters.
Us employees are washing our hands and using hand sanitizer.
Outside of that, nothing's changing.
However, I do get the awesome task of having to listen to all the right wing conservative dumbass that populate my town.
In the last two days I've been told that the virus was invented by the Chinese to get back at us for killing NAFTA, it was made by the Chinese just because and that it's just a flu virus because corona is another word for flu.
I straight up hate this town 😐
All we're doing is disinfecting our display phones more, and our counters.
Us employees are washing our hands and using hand sanitizer.
Outside of that, nothing's changing.
However, I do get the awesome task of having to listen to all the right wing conservative dumbass that populate my town.
In the last two days I've been told that the virus was invented by the Chinese to get back at us for killing NAFTA, it was made by the Chinese just because and that it's just a flu virus because corona is another word for flu.
I straight up hate this town 😐
I've heard a variation on the last one a lot.
"Corona virus just means common cold."
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dangling the possibility of working remotely from home but software and security things that I don't understand would have to be installed on my home computer
I have no problem going to work at the office, I could use the car instead of public transit and just eat microwave meals
I have no problem going to work at the office, I could use the car instead of public transit and just eat microwave meals
My future mother in law is the prime target for who this virus is killing, in her 70s, diabetic with surviving both cancer and a heart attack.
Her response to this, she's putting all her faith in Trump.
I was supposed to go back to South Dakota in three weeks, but I postponed it because I don't want to risk potentially infecting her if I somehow got it, and she's putting all her faith in a certified idiot.
😐
Government human services department (child protection, EBT, homeless assistance, etc) - my County seems to be handling it really well. There was a push for each department to build a strong continuity of operations plans over the last decade, and it's fascinating to see it play out pretty smoothly so far. We've been transitioning all who are able to working from home, while those who must be located on-site due to the services we provide are going to be spread farther apart through the building using the extra space from people working from home. We supposedly have a somewhat good supply of toilet paper/hand sanitizer/etc for those who have to work on-site, but we'll see since something at this scale probably couldn't have been imagined.
Next week will be the true test of how well we can still provide our services to citizens. (and if other departments in the County are operating as planned)
Next week will be the true test of how well we can still provide our services to citizens. (and if other departments in the County are operating as planned)
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The New England seafood restaurant I work for should be entering our busy season, but since Monday customers have plummeted. Really worried about getting hours cut or the city straight up being quarantined
I help run a grocery department. It's been insane. Extremely busy. Busting our asses all day long and putting in overtime. Ordering as much as we can.
I don't know what's going to happen when we inevitably all get sick after being surrounded by people all day.
I don't know what's going to happen when we inevitably all get sick after being surrounded by people all day.
I work in manufacturing, and obviously there is no WFH order from corporate, but it'd be nice...
Work at a hotel/restaurant.
Starting to get hit pretty bad. Lots of cancellations, and with schools closing starting monday it's going to get so much worse.
Starting to get hit pretty bad. Lots of cancellations, and with schools closing starting monday it's going to get so much worse.
Same, aside from I run the Drug side. It's been chaos. We're a smaller store that cannot handle the business we've been going through.
I work in a live event production company. Pretty much all of us are losing our jobs tomorrow for the indefinite future.
Freelancing booking agent for artists/bands.
Majority of concerts got cancelled within a few days. And I think the city is about to shut down all clubs in the coming days. Hoping for summer/autumn recovery.
Just wondering a bit about the Schadenfreude I read in some forums that this sector is suffering.
Luckily I do website redesign and other graphic design stuff for a year as a secondary job. Guess I will be focusing on that for while.
Or just take a few weeks off.
Majority of concerts got cancelled within a few days. And I think the city is about to shut down all clubs in the coming days. Hoping for summer/autumn recovery.
Just wondering a bit about the Schadenfreude I read in some forums that this sector is suffering.
Luckily I do website redesign and other graphic design stuff for a year as a secondary job. Guess I will be focusing on that for while.
Or just take a few weeks off.
I work front desk at a business traveler-centric hotel that's right next to the arena for the area. Every major event in town and concert has been cancelled. We went from 80-90% occupied every night for the rest of the month to sub 50 for every day and we're just waiting for the regional gymnastics competition to be cancelled and really tank us in early April. Despite being a national chain, we're a small business that only owns two hotels in the area, so the owner/ceo is already feeling the pinch from this, and my GM today warned me we can expect some changes to staffing.
Also I'm not sure if the cough, sore throat, and running nose is just allergies or not, but they aren't testing in WV at all unless you've traveled internationally, so they apparently don't believe in community transmission here. My in laws are both elderly, and my mother in law is pre-diabetic with some recent health concerns and pneumonia within the last two months.
It's not going great.
Also I'm not sure if the cough, sore throat, and running nose is just allergies or not, but they aren't testing in WV at all unless you've traveled internationally, so they apparently don't believe in community transmission here. My in laws are both elderly, and my mother in law is pre-diabetic with some recent health concerns and pneumonia within the last two months.
It's not going great.
Work at a major shipping port and work is way down, plus I'm also a high school sports Coach and they just cancelled our season and practice. Sad day for the players especially the Seniors but I know it's for everyone's best interest.
I'm in the tech industry. So far, no effects for our company, business as usual. On that note, we're testing out our internal systems to make sure it can handle the entire company working from home in case it's needed.
We generally have the option to work from home, so it's nothing unusual except for the matter of everyone in the office possibly needing to do so.
We generally have the option to work from home, so it's nothing unusual except for the matter of everyone in the office possibly needing to do so.
I work in beer distribution. Nothing but an email saying to wash our hands and stay home if youre sick (unpaid.) Good times
I'm a therapist at the largest campus in the country and we just decided to put everything online for the remainder of the semester. Don't know if we will do Zoom sessions or phone sessions for therapy with our students or...nothing. Totally unprecedented problem.